TCG Murad Hasan

"Murad Hasan" was a 5th Rate Admiral's Flagship frigate of the Ottoman Empire, the personal flagship of Maniot pirate Limberakis Gerakaris, during the early 18th century.

History
"Murad Hasan" was constructed in the dockyards of Acre, and was an expensive vessel: it had 130 men and 47 cannon, and took a year to build. The ship was made the flagship of Ottoman privateer Limberakis Gerakaris, who was the commander of the main Turkish fleet in the Mediterranean Sea waters.

Her first battle was the Battle of Otranto Bay on 19 December 1702, in which she was the jewel of a fleet of one galley and three light galleys. She was the main source of the cannonballs that hit the Italian States' navy, and she was also the ship that was the most responsible for boarding the Italian Fleet's ships. Murad Hasan took minimal damage and accompanied the fleet to Piraeus in early 1703 for repairs, rearment, and unit replenishment; not all of her men survived the naval encounter with the Papal States.